Complete Clue List
Across
1. A proton's outlook on the world
7. A physicist's pet dog, or the circle of light a laser makes
10. Scholarly suffix: A physic___ might study these things
11. Helium nucleus released via radioactivity
15. A quark flavor that's moving higher
17. Let's turn ___ the accelerator and study physics!
18. An electron may be at a certain energy ___
19. Lithium (periodically)
20. Unit of time (abbr.)
21. A not-very-quarky fundamental particle, like an electron or a neutrino
24. A particle's mass times its speed
26. When you run a current through a semiconductor, this is what moves
27. 43,560 square feet
29. It always moves forward, except in science fiction
32. Entrepreneurs' Org.
33. Descartes, famous mathematician: "I think, therefore I ___"
35. A pronoun for Einstein
36. What physicists say when they make a mistake
37. What the physicist did to the wave function before it collapsed
41. Part num.
42. Is light a particle, or is it this?
43. Possess
44. Particles' intrinsic angular momenta (1/2 for electrons)
48. The average physicist has this many fingers
50. Quantum physics is an ___-and-shut case
51. A note to follow so
53. ___ all that you can ___
54. It orbits the nucleus
58. Quantum physicists study very ___ things
59. Beginner
60. Future offspring of 35 Down
61. Educat.
62. Opposite over hypotenuse
63. What a wave function does after it's measured
Down
1. The ___ Exclusion Principle keeps electrons out of each other's hair
2. Système International (a.k.a. the metric syst.)
3. An elementary nucleus with a certain number of neutrons
4. The Total News (Aus. kids' prog.)
5. The number of chemical bonds an element forms
6. Force that brings an electron and a proton together
8. The smallest unit of light
9. What the electron did to get out of the potential well
12. Pt. of view
13. What you steer a ship with
14. A top-fermented barley beer
16. 3.14159...
20. Dirac's theories sailed a ___ of negative-energy particles
22. A solution's acidity
23. Opt. Lett., a physics journal
25. Univ. of Exeter (including their physics dept.)
28. A hot state of matter
29. The highest flavor of quark?
30. Electrically charged atoms
31. Member of Parl.
34. Heavier cousin of the electron
35. Creature responsible for 60 Across
38. Electron volt (abbr.)
39. Nineteenth-century British physicists thought light moved through this material
40. Rand. walk
45. A charged part of the nucleus
46. How to describe elements that don't have much chemistry
47. Velocity size
49. Physicists with Y chromosomes
51. What a felled tree becomes
52. The "corner" formed where two lines meet
55. Suffix that makes an adjective into an adverb
56. The shape of a solenoid magnet
57. Physicists ___ what they sow